Productive day....

9577 - 9477 = 1840 wph. WAHOOOOO....that's really good considering all the cooking I've been doing, the laundry and dishes getting done. Oh and the yesterday morning I came home really sick, Duck covered me with 2 blankets and I couldn't get warm, he ended up bringing down the space heater to help me. Still high, but seriously not as high as I thought it would be. We really need to get back to shutting off the water heater at night.

The past 3 or so day I've been suffering from moderate to sever headaches, Sunday's was a migrane. It made me so sick that there was times I kept a trashcan handy. Nothing has been able to knock them out besides trying to sleep. The worst part is the light sensitivity to light(I'm sure I didn't spell that right).

We went to the store this morning bright and early, got some stew meat, sausage and beef. I have already canned all the stew beef for veggie/beef soup, next and only waiting on the dishwasher to finish sanatizing the jars is the chili, I think I'll have to do the second batch tomorrow. I will make potatoe soup tomorrow and I'm going to make green bean/potatoe soup also. Poor Kale plant is going ot be naked again. The plants in the garden are doing well, mostly that is. Some of the tomato have fallen over, not sure if it is too wet or they are going to die, we'll see in the next couple of days. I have enough water from the past rain to more than likely fill one of the rain barrels. Duck is going to hook up a hose spigot to it before we dump it all in. Hopefully before Thursday since we are going to have more rain at the end of this week. Time to get the corn, rest of the tomatoes, beans, cucu and peppers into the ground. I'm really happy with the thought that we are going to have too much food, on the other hand I'm nervous that we are not. I can't believe how much beans and tomatoes have gone up at Save-a-lot, it's crazy. When I first started shopping they were 29 or 39 cents per can...now they are 59...R U KIDDING ME? That's high. Yet another reason to plant a big garden.
Okay, it's Tue, guess I forgot to post this....

Third time is the charm...

That is how many times I clocked in and out at work today...I certainly hope that this isn't every Sunday...Although I really enjoy being able to go to the meeting here in town and would do what I can do to make that happen. I'm really pleased with the meeting today, Br. S did a wonderful job!

I'm feeling very under the weather. I picked up some more cough drops, vit C drops and some cough drops for the baby. There isn't any cold medicine that I can give him, he is either underweight (which is what our doc said is most important), under age or both. So for now it will be breathing treatments, motrin/tyl. switch, vit C and rest. Speaking of rest...time for bed.

Night!

Yet another long day....

So I opened this morning. NO one called me to tell me that I didn't have a prep person, D said that she didn't have my number nor access. To top it all off, another mgr changed thier schedule totally screwing me. The deal is simple, if I get to leave for my meeting, I can come back and help during truck. If I don't I have to drive nearly an hour away and can't come back for truck. I thank B and D for helping me make it to my meeting...I only wish that other mgrs would help out.

I'm getting sick, my throat hurts, my chest hurts and I am exhausted. After tomorrow I will have worked 46 hours this week...not my idea of fun. While we need the money but don't I really would rather not work that much, it makes for little time for my faith and my children. The baby is still sick, he is cought, well both of them are. We started breathing treatments to help break up the stuff in their lungs. One is crashed out and the other seems as if he is going to. I took a few hour nap today, thankfully! The time change has screwed everybody up in one way or the other...mine is sleep.

I'm really really really sad about my plants, it has now been determined that it was the children who used scissors to cut the plants for some unknown reason. They are nearly a total loss and I will have to start over tomorrow. I will use the peat pots again since the germination time is nill.

We have decided that as long as I use the gym, I can sign up. This will be a month to month thing. As long as I still go, I can keep paying the dues.

Daily reading is 8025.. That's 41 kwh or 1708 wph. better!!!! It was cold today so the heater was running and the dryer a bit. It is vital to keeping the usage down by turning off the water heater off...

Well I must go, I need to go back to work in about an hour...not sure how long I will be there.

Horrible day...

Well, the car isn't fixed, the day was so long at work, it was so bad it isn't even funny. Why are we forced to settle for substandard?

Christian is getting worse, he is still funning a fever, he is even more cranky, his eyes are reddened, he is stuffy, coughing and conjested. Poor little guy. Time to do the humidifier stuff. I think we will give him a treatment in the morning...speaking of which, the time change is today, I need to hurry and get my stuff done...

07984 tonight's reading...OUCH! -7890 94kwh in a day... 3916 watts per hour. Okay, so let's face it, we have been heating the house with the dryer and space heaters, it is going to be high. That leaves our 4 day average at around 1885 per hour. which isn't really bad, but isn't good either. We will work on this...

ON a more sad note, apparently my plant hating cat had gotten into my bedroom, he broke and chewed up all my starts, they are all now trashed and I have to start over tomorrow. The good new is that the peat pots only take a week or so to germinate. We will put the shelving unit this weekend, install grow lights and start nearly completely over. I was happy to see a few of either cauliflower or broccoli had made it, but that was probably it besides one of the green bean plants.

This was Sat post.....forgot to hit the publish post button.

Planting spurt..

The first planting took place on 1/25 or 26th I can't remember but I have it written down on the popsickle sticks that I used to label each plant, the second was on 2/8 and then the third today. I have some pics that I'm downloading right now. I'm trying to get my hyrdo system up, hopefully we will get one up this weekend. I'm lacking the following...netty pots, gravel and fertilizer. Miracle grow is the cloest thing that I can find right now at 20-20-21. I'm going to have to try it atleast. If it doesn't work then I will use that mixture to water the rest of my plants, clean the items and then order some from the internet. I really rather not do that, but I will. I have found a system that I really want to try, it seems the best for my needs for inside the house. So I would like to let everyone know right now and finally, my hydroponics system if for vegatables ONLY nothing illegal which I've been asked if that is what I'm doing. Hello! If I were doing something illegal would I post it? Would I spread info about it? Nothing is further from the possible truth. We are very excited at the possibility that we will be able to eat fresh lettuce year around. Here is one of the systems that I'm going to be trying..I'm really looking forward to seeing the results: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHiKKuAanyE&feature=related

Okay...so I really enjoy planting. I've read that Farmer's Almanac in parts that pertained to our area. I've leared a lot of useful info and we will be getting material for the cold frame which I hope to have pics of this weekend. (my work weekend) if we get them done that is!

Next it is locating a tiller...hopefully my neighbbor comes home soon :) If not we will have to either pay someone to come out and do it or rent one.

On a funny note I hurt myself really bad last night...in my sleep. The funny part is doing something that I hate to do...yoga. I was dreaming that I was doing yoga, which is really odd, then I felt a HUGE sharp pain and quickly woke up in a yoga pose. I pulled the muscle in my sternum and I would like to say, it hurts REALLY BAD.

Okay, I hope that you enjoy the pics, the youtube video and if you get bored...go to youtube and type in hydroponics. On a side note, it would be good to stay away from those referring to marijuana. There is some wonderful info and check out the verticle gardening ones too, they are really cool!

Night, Kate

Working upstairs today....

We moved all the plants upstairs, I'll try to post some pics if I get them. I'm really rather depressed today at some news I rec'd. I really hate it when people degrade my parenting. Last time I checked they were my kids, since they aren't abused and they aren't bad children. We don't have conventional teaching as most in the day in age. We don't do anything without our children and again we are told that's wrong. (well there is only one thing that we do without our children...but to keep this G rated, it is left up to mommy and daddy time) Why is it wrong? Why would we have children if we didn't want to spend time with them? In 12 yrs Sunshine will be 18 and will be off doing his own thing...infact I probably don't have to wait that long, I'm probably looking at 9 or 10 yrs....why waste a minute with them now?

Okay, today was a bad day. I am still really upset and not sure how to approach it. While I think that I will ride this one out, in the mean time I'm not sure what to do or think. I'm really tired, my eyes are sore and hurt so bad. I am just dumbfounded.

This afternoon we cleaned the spare room and set up the plants inthe window, they perked up today so I'm thinking it will be good lighting for the starts and the hydroponics. Now I just pray the boys leave the plants alone. I will put in a grow light so that I can have the 16 hours that they want. We will go get the tubing for the hydro systems this weekend (mon or tue since I work in retail). I think that I have enough buckets to start and I will order some offline as well since I want to use the right mesh pots. If I can grow all my own lettuce that would be great! That will free up a LOT of room in the garden to plant more tomatoes. We are also going to build a hoop coldframe.

Goals/Plans for this weekend (done by Tue)

Fold and do all laundry tomorrow (fri)
Finish up boys room (Sat)
Laundry Room (Sun)
Kitchen (Mon) Hydro system
Livingroom/Hall (Tue) solar stuff

Okay I need to go, I see a shower and motrin in my very near future...

Me.

A full day at home...

Well Okay, I woke up this morning still feeling weighed down in the chest...and no, it wasn't my boobs. I feel like I've been punched and the perps arm came out the other side. This generally means that I'm getting sick...DARN IT. I don't have time for this. I did however manage to get some stuff done today. I'm happy with what little progress I made in the laundry room, I'm going to try to finish it off before heading upstairs to bring down the dirty laundry baskets and bed sheets. I took a five minute nap today and it really did me wonders...not sure why, but it gave me the boost that I needed.

I am very thrilled to report that we found that the broccoli, cauliflower and bean plants that we planted on the 25th have come up...this is right about on time. Once they are a bit bigger, probably next Monday I will transplant them into the green pots, which are bigger, and start them over again. I will keep each stick with the plant to document which live and which don't. This will give me a much better idea as to how much and when to plant. Since I want to start the tomatoes and some stuff early and do it in bi-weekly phases, it was important to start early. This will give me an early crop and a staggered crop which will prevent waste and allow a run of supply, not just one time frame.

I strongly dislike....

bird food. I'm not a bird...I'm a human, there are humans who have made good yummy food for us to eat which I love to consume. Now, this being my first day, I can't have any. Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast: yogrut, fruit and walnut salad

Snack I had 2/3 can of mandrain oranges drined (in light syrup)

Lunch: 1 cup mixed white and brown rice, 1 cup mixed veggies, 1/3 chicken breast baked.

Let's see what dinner holds out.

Dinner: 1 1/2 cup of mix rice with soy and teriaki sauce, 8 oz of nonfat yogurt

I will probably have a snack of either fruit or yogurt, I could eat yogurt for every meal...

Me.

Day two and the funk...

Day two of potty training has been a success. While Smiley is still really upset he can't wear a diaper he is really looking forward to getting cars undies. I tried to clean a bit today and it worked well, I got some done. I know that this house doesn't get dirty or messed up all at once, so I can't get it all clean at once. We are working on a schedule that will be good for all of us.

Today we got our gas bill...ouch! It was over 200 dollars. This isn't going to be a good week at all. We will just have to watch it.

I'm starting my diet in the morning, this will hopefully be the one! I've been in such a funk lately, I have no energy no nothing. I'm feeling rather depressed and just down, I need to get this done, this weight off and get more motivated to get things going. So I will make a rewards list for myself. This way I have something to work for other than loseing the weight. Something small but rewarding all the same. We'll see how it works.

Holy Puke Batman...

Everynight before the baby goes to bed, he throws up. This has been going on for 3 days now. He'll feel fine, jump, play and be rotten, and then all the sudden, there he blows! If he keeps this up he will be going to the doc. This is annoying and it really upsets him. You can tell he feels yucky afterwards, which means another bath and then he seems like he is very embarrassed by it.

Okay, I need to scoot.

Me.

AHHHH.....

Okay...so I've been working with Duck to try to get his class schedules set up where he can be done in the fall/winter. I don't see it happening. Today he will get his revised circulum and he is going to be 2 classes off. The only way to him through would be for him to take the max amount of classes between now and then...it isn't possible. He's bauking at 15 hrs...there is no way I can get him to do 18. Now to the hard part. I need to see if I can get my schedule set on a fixed schedule until the end of this term and the I think that I will be able to stick with the same schedule.

Smiley lost all of his dinner again last night, I'm wondering if he is getting a cold or something and getting a mucus backup, it seems to happen more when he coughs or gags. I know that sounds obvious, but now he has more symptons of having a gi bug. NO FUN.

Sunshine hasn't been eating as much lately and he has been asking for his breathing treatments so we are doing what we can go make sure that he is staying healthy...he is the on that I worry most about healthwise.

I'm feeling a lot better, the medicine seemed to do the trick..I still have a spell now and again but nothing major. I can't believe how hard it was to do anything besides focusing on walking. Unless you've ever had that you probably wouldn't even know what I was talking about. I hope that you never do.

Well I want to finish rearranging the upstairs and fold the laundry and get it put away. I all need to FC the toddler bed.

TTFN.
Katy

and the winner is:

well both boys...for the child that could wake mommy and daddy up in the worst (while not their fault) way. At 2:30ish Smiley woke me up hacking..I knew what was coming...a long night of catching his puke. Yipeee....how did I get this prize? So then at 4ish, Sunshine woke up doing the same...oh my. Now I'm going to have two children throwing up on each side of me. My poor brand new pillow was scared. I scrunched him up as small as I could and turned him verticle so he would hopefully stay out of the damage path. So far so good. Hopeing it was over this morning when Smiley was lively and smiling, I was sadly mistaken...He just did it again. So that makes it now 5 times and he has already cleared his stomach for a second time. The only thing that I worry about with him is the fact that he is so tiny, he might dehydrate quickly. As for Sunshine, he had nothing to really put up, he didn't eat hardly anything at all yesterday.

Well I have to get ready for work, sine I'm feeling better it would be a good idea to go in instead of loafing around here. The med is really working well, it just makes me so tired.

Later...toodles.

What happens when....

you change a blind mans living room around? Okay..so we've all heard that joke before, but what happens when you move an autistic kids room around? Today was rough to say the least. Sunshine was so beside himself, it has been unreal. I'm praying we don't end up with a seizure. Then not thinking he wouldn't let Smiley on the top bunk (which is Sunshine's bed) to play I removed all Sunshine's Buzz Lightyear bedding and put them on the bottom bunk and move the Cars bedding to the top. I was trying to prove a point at the end of my wits, it was a split second decision. Why didn't I just throw myself to the lions? Right now he is not allowed upstairs unless we are up there since they can't play nice, they can't play up there. We'll let them play downstairs and we will work on letting them go back up there later. We have rearranged the upstairs, I'm washing the 2 load of dishes, I hate the new dishwasher and can't wait to get our tax check, then I can buy a new one. Today has been short, rough and trying...but as a mother you will have those days.

I've gotta run, it's time to change the clothes over and wipe down the kitchen.

Toodles.
Me.

loosing momentum

I've been so tired, so incredibly tired. I took a 4 hour nap today and could've slept all night. Yesterday I posted a wanted for the hooked on phonics system. So someone told me that they saw one at Goodwill the day before and recommend I check there, so we did that today, we got the whole system for $5.99. WOW!! We also picked up two or three suits for Duck and a couple of pants and sport coats. I love deals..now I just have to get them dry cleaned. Sunshine is ready to start reading, I want to get him into it. He can do all his Pre-K and K stuff so the next thing is the to teach him to read. We will then start picking out parts of the bible and giving him assignments for the Watchtower Study so he can speak. We are working on our schedule and getting him set up. I am going to call to see if I can get him into the doc, he needs to be checked I think he may have an ear infection or something, he is acting funny. Well I got a carpet cleaner so I need to get things started tonight so I can go over them again in the morning.

Call out the dogs....

And light the fires, change is in the air. It's time to make a difference in life.

The past two days have been interesting. I've been in an unbelieveable amount of pain, tonight I'm pretty sure that I've taken care of most of it, I relocated my shoulder. I simply finally found the spot and pushed. It was releiving, I still have minor pain but feel better.

How do you...

teach an old dog new tricks? Work was yet again rough. We need so people who know what they are doing, and are willing to do the job that they are bing paid to do with very little to no lip. I will be looking into policies to see what I need to brush up on myself. There are some things that I've been taught how to do the wrong way.

Smiley is sick, he's running a fever again. I will need to call the nurse tomorro and see what they want to do about it. This isn't a huge concern yet, but I found out that he has been exposed to three people who have had and recovered from h1n1. I'm not going to freak out about this, I must protect Sunshine though. He is unable to take any of the flu meds as they either aren't for people with breathing problems or they are penicillin dirivatives. (not sure if I spelled that correctly)

I'm really tired today and if my arm isn't any better by Friday I will see if I can get into the doc myself. I wonder if I've torn my shoulder. The pain isn't always intense, but it isn't going away.

Well I need to go, I want to I want to wash a couple loads of laundry tonight so I can hang it out first thing in the morning.

Toodles.

Crappy day...

I feel like my shoulder is dislocated. It hurts, not as bad as it did last night, but it still aches. The rice pad worked really well, it feels better with rest. I have to work tomorrow and certainly hope that it is more fun that it was today. I certainly wish that I could drop a few packages of midol in the stores water supply. Some days the employees are more rude than the customers. And for the record, I don't want anyone's job, if I did, they'd know it. I'm happy in my current position and I don't intending on making this job a life long adventure. I'm happy that right now I'm getting as many hours as I'd like and happy that I can get the days off that I really need.

Gotta run!

Toodles.

Life Changing day!

First we will start with Riley: The doc said that he does not have Epilepcy now, this is something that could change in the future (how ever you spell that). Okay so that's the good news. The MRI came back normal...another sign of good news. The EEG came back abnormal. It showed signs of slowing brainwaves at times. While these weren't enough to consider them seizures, they were enough to consider them abnormal. If he has more visibile or more intense silent seizures we will have to do a sleep study and a 24 hr. EEG. We are waiting on his blood test results, I will have to dig in and do a bunch of follow up, this is important at this point. Critically so. If he is dumping too many proteins in his blood to, we will have to speak with a kidney doc and a dietician. Sunshine will have to change his diet and we will have to monitor more closly what he eats. By the way..stupid fact of the day. Did you know that 5 gummy worms have 3 grams of protein in them. Good thing to know if you are ever lost in the woods for an extended amount of time and only have gummy worms to eat. I'm very happy with the help that Dr. S gave us. While we are back to square one, we know that it isn't necessarily his brain causing the problem. We are going back to diet now. We need to see what we can do. I guess it is time to look up diet and autism.

THen we went to Duck's aunt house. Everytime we are there she keeps telling me we should apply for disability for him. Why? Why is it any of your business? I can understand the first or maybe the second time, but I don't need her doing research for me telling me that I quality when I've been told by other not to waste my time, he doesn't. We don't need it anyway. While we struggle a bit when we make bad decisions, Jah takes care of us. He provides everything we need and when we seem to need a bit more he shows us how to make it. Them more money you have the more problems you have PERIOD. Granted I say that and I asked for more money at work, only because when Duck looses his unemployment we will not make enough to pay our basic montly bills. I'm only asking enough to pay my bills, everything else we will have to worry about then. Which is another reason as to why my pantry is stocked and my freezers are overflowing...literally.

We then met up with my very prego friend K who gave 3 of us hair cuts. It has been two years, she said I had a lot of breakages, but I needed to switch shampoo and conditionars every three days. Like use Suave (which has a high alcohol content) for two days and then use a better one the 3rd day. This would help, I'm going to look into this too! We had fun we first met up for lunch and then we to the salon. Sunshine didn't freak out as much as he usually does. Of course he wasn't asked to sit in the chair either. It was so nice to see her. When she has the baby I'm going to go up and see her. She did the same for me, she was one of the only ones who visited me in the hospital when I had Sunshine. Even my best friend at the time didn't come up. K has really been a good friend over the years.

Then we met up with JM, it was so much fun, I haven't seen her in 18 months. She bought us dinner and we sat at Pizza Hut for about 2 hours talking. I got to give her a wonderful witness, she asked questions and I had the pleasure of answering. It was truly moving! I love her to death, she has always been there for me through thick and thin. She is a wonderful and amazing woman.

Then we decided to meet up with my mother. We called Aunt S for the number since I forgot to write it down and quite frankly I thought we'd be leaving town well before then. So we met up with them at McDonald's she looks terrible, sounds terrible. I'm really happy she could see her grandchildren. She has osteoperious (again spelling), diabetes, emphazema and a slue of other problems. It was heart breaking to see. She kept prying as to where we lived and such. We gave a little as possible, being protective we feel at this point we must error on the side of caution.

Today when Duck gets home I'm going out to buy a big bottle of Calicum vitamins and some chewables for myself and the kids. I just can't swallow adult vitamins. We ahve to start eating better and exercising, I want to live past 55.

Well I need to get started on house work. I've got a lot of laundry to catch up and some dishes to do. I need to get things done and hopefull can some veggie soup.

Gotta scoot.

Busy day...

Yesterday I didn't work as long as I was scheduled, I have also asked to be off by 7 pm. I'm always sent home early anyway, and they know I'll stay later if I need to. I ended up having to come in and work the early opening shift since R wasn't going to be there and B called off too. On top of that A couldn't be there so Ag covered for her. I opened with an inexperienced opener and learned that I need to learn more in the kitchen. This was after the fact that I couldn't get the safe since I didn't have the combo. I ended up calling S at 4:30, but I didn't realize that I should've called her home, my mistake I should have looked at the wall. Then at a few minutes before 5 I called L, no answer and finally had to call J, I felt bad but I had to wake her up. She gave me the number and it was a complex combo, I've never seen anything like it even working at the bank. I was a fun morning, I even had a minor fight with the muffin toaster, I couldn't remember how to get it hooked up right. The maintenance guy couldn't even get it, we were stumped. Then he finally got one pc in and we couldn't get it out. GRRRR. I watched him for a few mintues trying to get it out and then I started to get fustrated and said, "It's my turn and IT'S COMING OUT!" It ended up only taking me about 5 sec to get it out, when it get locked in, it has to be lifted out, not pulled. It was funny after all, we then figured it out. He actually had it in right, we just weren't looking at the bigger pic. I know now how to get it done! So that is two new things that I've done.

I want to get the cleaning done today and get some things canned. I also have to get some studying done and I want to work on the blanket that I wanted to finish two years ago. We are going to go look at a new dishwasher. I need one bad, I'm wasting more energy do dishes and far more water. I could also be cleaning something else while that is running which would save me more time and personal energy!

Well I need to go get some alcohol to rub on my arm it itches really bad and the poison ivy is showing it's ugly face again.

Me.

What a day!

Today was perfect at work, S and I were the only ones there and it was so easy going. Although we were really slow and ended up sending so many people home, it was a great day. We had fun, we did the job, we took care of the guests and it wasn't stressful in the least bit. It was a great day. I was actually able to run a shift and we even got extra cleaning done including the entire play place inside head to toe.

The poison ivy is getting so bad, it's nearly all over. I itch and I itch and I itch and I know I shouldn't scratch, but it itches! I just do my best to wash my hands an apply alcohol and caladril regularly. I think that I have this pinned down to when I brushed King out, I washed my arms and hands well afterwards (I'm allergic to dogs) the next day I had bumps on my left forearm, then two days later is spread like wildfire. I think that I may have to go back to the doc. There isn't much I can do, and I really don't want to miss anymore meetings or work. I don't think it wise to go to the meeting in the morning, I still consider myself contagious. I will see what E thinks, I really want to go, but I really don't want anyone else to suffer as I am.

Well I'm going to go, I need to do the few dishes and run a couple loads of laundry.

K